Item no. P73 (postcard)

Type: postcard

Country: Italy

Date of use: September 1993

Postal card (unused) issued on the occasion of Philatelic Exhibition in Palermo (Italy), that commemorated the WW II OPERATION "HUSKY" (Allied Forces' invasion of Sicily in 1943).
The cachet shows a stylized reproduction of Robert Capa's (1913 - 1954) photograph presenting Italian peasant pointing with a stick to an American soldier the way which German troops had gone.
The (CTO) cancel depressed on the postcard presents an outline of the same image.